(Closed) Centerpiece Help!???

I am having doubts about my centerpieces that they are too plain, too dark and not enough focus on bright jewel tones and bling. Wihtout changing them entirely (although I am loving all the eiffel tower vases and chandelier candelabras I keep seeing:) can anyone help me out?!?!

I am thinking of adding floralyte beads in the same color as the flowers (so fuchsia with fuchsia, purple with purple, etc etc.), adding rhinestones to the centers of the flowers and adding some pearl strands either to the flowers themselves or in a garland around the bottom. What do you think? I’d love to add them to the flowers themselves, but using a hurricane vase like mine, how would I get them to hang up?? Also, I was going to add 4 short candle votives with bling mesh around each one and scatter flower petals in the same color as the centerpiece and diamond confetti and on the table; What do you think? Is all this too much? How hard is it to add rhinestones or gems to the center of flowers? Instead of blinged out candle holders should i do colored votives? Help, ideas and advice much appreciated!!!

Here are my current centerpieces (there will also be a red floral centerpiece added to the mix too and there will be at least two of each color centerpiece – 8 total)

I think I’d alternate the bead colors–like white with pink flowers, pink with purple flowes, and purple with white flowers–the contrast might help the flowers stand out a bit more. And as soon as I saw them, I thought they could use some crystals inside the flowers.

But if you got the lights/beads route, I wouldn’t add too much more to the vases, it might look a bit cluttered with both.

I think if you did all of that it would be too much. I like the floralytes but they can get expensive depneding on how many you need. I also had a florist tell me that they wouldn’t recommend putting floralytes and votives in the same centerpiece because the lights from the floralyte are very bright white and candle flames are more of a glowing orange so they could clash.

I love the idea of adding the crystals to the flowers and votives to the table.. candles always brighten things up!

Allright bees, as promised, here are some new trial runs and pix! I was making some exchanges at the Dollar Tree last night to get rid of some of the darker flowers I had in exchange for some light accents and on a whim I popped into Pier 1 next door. Boy, am I glad I did! In the clearance floral section, i scooped up some beautiful fuchsia and lime green gerbera daisies for $.98 cents each; plum blossom branches for .97 cents each and some sparkly fucshia filler (leftover from Halloween) for $.78 cents!

What do you all think of my new jewel tone centerpiece displays? I’d still like to add some short candle votives around them and diamond confetti – opinions? Love them? Hate them? I can take it:)

@thirdtimebride: I agree with both coments. For the 1st design, alternating the bead colours would integrate the centerpieces with one-another. The second has a totally different (never the less beautiful) feel to it. I guess it depends what you’re going for.

Thanks for the input! You both make really good points and I hadn’t thought about how different they were. I mean it’s definitely one or the other as far as the centerpieces go but maybe my idea in general doesn’t go that well together?

Our venue is like a large indoor garden with lots of winodws, a few green plants, two chandeliers and floor to ceiling windows that overlook a rocky waterfall. I wanted to play up the decor that is already there and then exaggerate it even more to make it a colorful, bejeweled, indoor garden, with lots of flowers and some bling!

I was starting to really worry that I wouldn’t achieve this with the first design of centerpieces. I felt like the centerpieces were monochromatic and although more tight and sleek – it wouldn’t easily pull of the jewel tone garden without looking too much of mish mash of colors or like I couldn’t decide what color to use and so I just used them all.

Using the second, most recent centerpiece design, the multi colored centerpieces to bring in some jewel tone colors. The tables are white linen with runners on top in alternating sapphire, fuchsia and purple. I picture hanging clear crystals from the chandeliers; there will be white icicle lights around the top border of the room; I was going to use I still want to use bling and jewels in the centerpieces but not sure if I should do this with diamond confetti; beweled short votives or a large rhinestone glued to the vase itself with the second piece.

Here’s some shots of the room to give you an idea. Let me know what you think if you think my idea will work or not.

Having seem your space, now I’m thinking the more deconstructed look is the way to go–the sleek vibe would have a lot to compete with all the green outside the windows.

To bring the bling into the second set of centerpieces, consider scattering clear crystals among the flowers so they look like dew drops (tiny, in the depths of the flowers or on the very edges–they’ll catch the candlelight and shimmer), maybe even some crystal stems like you sometimes see used as “cake jewelry” inside the arrangements.

I’ll have to look into the cake jewelry – I’m not sure i”ve heard of it but I love the sound of it! I totally agree with you about competing with the outdoor scenery – exept that it will be February so it will mostly be bracnches but nonetheless it’s still there – I figure I might as well use the garden feel that’s already available with the room and just exagerrate it. Thanks for the input!!